Sheva—­Sir Roger Lestrange.

  Shimei—­Slingsby Bethel, Sheriff of
  London in 1680.

  Sion—­England.

  Solymaean Rout—­London Rebels.

  Tyre—­Holland.

  Uzza—­Jack Hall.

  Zadoc—­Sancroft, Archbishop of
  Canterbury.

  Zaken—­A Member of the House of
  Commons.

  Ziloah—­Sir John Moor, Lord Mayor
  in 1682.

  Zimri—­Villiers, Duke of Buckingham.

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FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 67:  ‘Annabel:’  Lady Ann Scott, daughter of Francis, third Earl of Buccleuch.]

[Footnote 68:  ‘Adam-wits:’  comparing the discontented to Adam and his fall.]

[Footnote 69:  ‘Triple bond:’  alliance between England, Sweden, and Holland; broken by the second Dutch war through the influence of France and Shaftesbury.]

[Footnote 70:  ‘Vare:’  i.e., wand, from Spanish vara.]

[Footnote 71:  ‘Him:’  Dr Dolben, Bishop of Rochester.]

[Footnote 72:  ‘Ruler of the day:’  Phaeton.]

[Footnote 73:  The second part was written by Mr Nahum Tate, and is by no means equal to the first, though Dryden corrected it throughout.  The poem is here printed complete.]

[Footnote 74:  ‘Next:’  from this to the line, ’To talk like Doeg, and to write like thee,’ is Dryden’s own.]

[Footnote 75:  ‘Who makes,’ &c.:  a line quoted from Settle.]

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THE MEDAL.[76]

A SATIRE AGAINST SEDITION.

EPISTLE TO THE WHIGS.

For to whom can I dedicate this poem with so much justice as to you?  It is the representation of your own hero:  it is the picture drawn at length, which you admire and prize so much in little.  None of your ornaments are wanting; neither the landscape of your Tower, nor the rising sun; nor the Anno Domini of your new sovereign’s coronation.  This must needs be a grateful undertaking to your whole party; especially to those who have not been so happy as to purchase the original.  I hear the graver has made a good market of it:  all his kings are bought up already; or the value of the remainder so enhanced, that many a poor Polander, who would be glad to worship the image, is not able to go to the cost of him, but must be content to see him here.  I must confess I am no great artist; but sign-post painting will serve the turn to remember a friend by, especially when better is not to be had.  Yet, for your comfort, the lineaments are true; and though he sat not five times to me, as he did to B., yet I have consulted history, as the Italian painters do when they would draw a Nero or a Caligula:  though they have not seen the man, they can help their imagination by a statue of him, and find out the colouring from Suetonius and Tacitus.  Truth is, you might have spared one side of your Medal:  the head would be seen to more advantage if it were placed on a spike of the Tower, a little nearer to the sun, which would then break out to better purpose.